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The Han River, spanning 7.7 kilometers, starts from Quang Nam Province and flows towards Da Nang and the sea. Da Nang authorities have constructed numerous bridges to connect the two sides of the river since 2000. The river is also a popular tourist destination, with boats available for tourists to view the city at night. However, there are eyesores on the banks of the river. An abandoned cruise project begun in 2017 was never completed and the debris has yet to be cleaned up. As time went on, the infrastructure fell into a state of decline, and people began to litter the place. A sewer can be seen at an intersection between Bach Dang and Nhu Nguyet streets in Hai Chau District, next to a parking lot for tourist buses and cars. Several sections of Nhu Nguyet Street are full of litter, either with domestic waste or leftover construction materials. Empty land plots have to put up signs … [Read more...] about Iconic Da Nang river blanketed with trash

While climbing a high rock cliff, widely known as the ‘death cliff,’ in Vietnam’s northern mountainous province of Ha Giang to take photos last week, a British tourist slipped, fell about two meters off the cliff, and had his left leg injured. Authorities of Meo Vac District in Ha Giang Province, where the cliff is located, on Sunday night confirmed the incident, saying that it happed last Friday afternoon in Pai Lung Commune. The foreigner suffered profuse bleeding due to his injuries. Upon receiving reports of the incident, police and medical workers in Pai Lung Commune rushed to the scene to give first aid to the man. He was later transferred to Hanoi. The ‘death cliff’ is a dangerous site with many large rocks overlapping each other but they are loose in places. The rock where tourists often stand to take photos is smooth, so tourists may easily slip. To ensure safety for tourists, the authorities of Pai Lung Commune and Meo Vac District have repeatedly called on … [Read more...] about British traveler injured after falling off cliff in northern Vietnam

Nguyen Van Luu, a Meo Vac official, told VnExpress the man slipped and fell off while taking selfies on a cliff in Ma Pi Leng Pass, an attraction for daring tourists. He was rushed to a local hospital with injuries to his leg before being sent to Hanoi. Fences are erected around roads leading to a cliff in Meo Vac in Ha Giang Province, northern Vietnam. Photo by VnExpress/Nguyen Tien Ha Tourists are banned from climbing up the cliff due to the permanent fog there, slippery terrain and other dangers, and fences have been put up on roads leading to it. Nevertheless, officials said, many tourists ignore the warnings and take selfies on the cliff. A tourist with a mesmerizing photo from a cliff in Meo Vac District in Ha Giang. Photo by Abtrip Ha Giang has become a popular tourist destination for western tourists in recent years, but it is not an easy trip for amateur travelers due to its narrow, twisting roads and dangerous mountain passes. … [Read more...] about British tourist falls off cliff in Ha Giang, hospitalized

The session on "Powering smarter and greener in industries" at the VIR's digital transformation conference Denis Brunetti, president of Ericsson in Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia, and Laos 5G is very much part of the collaboration between industry, academia, and government. And, of course, Ericsson has engaged RMIT University in Vietnam this year and last year in education of 5G, IT, machine learning, and AI, among others. Each country is building its own infrastructure at its own pace. Currently, there are about 55-60 countries that have already deployed 5G technology. In Vietnam, VNPT, MobiFone, and Viettel have started early, since 2020 with 5G trials. Just as data is the new oil that fuels the digital economy, the frequency spectrum is the oxygen that mobile broadband networks breath and use to grow and expand. The Vietnamese government and carriers are also deploying at a pretty good rate today, and we are also supporting carriers as much as possible to … [Read more...] about Powering smarter and greener industries

It took a loaded pistol pointed at Lazzaro D'Auria's head for the Italian landowner to finally say yes to the country's newest and most violent mafia. The Puglia farmer had resisted their extortion attempts in the past –- the threats, the fires, the damage to his crops and property. But surprised by the early morning visit of a dozen men, including a boss with a gun, he agreed to their demand for 150,000 euros a year. Instead of paying up the next day, D'Auria went to the police, making him one of the few people to ever denounce Foggia's little-known mafia, Italy's long-ignored and today its most violent organised crime syndicate. "If more citizens pressed charges, the local mafia could be weakened," D'Auria, who has lived under police protection since 2017, told AFP. "Citizens, speak out!" implored the 57-year-old, who sees recent crackdowns by authorities as a sign the mafia can be weakened if locals overcome their fears. Its bloody clan wars were once dismissed as … [Read more...] about Italy’s ‘Fourth Mafia’, little-known but extremely violent

The pushing and shoving continued even as the family transported Linh’s coffin to his resting place at Hoa Vien Cemetery in Ho Chi Minh City-adjacent Binh Duong province on March 9. "Besides people waiting in line, there were many who jostled to take photos and videos at the funeral," said Hong Phuong, Vu Linh’s granddaughter. Artist Thanh Dien said that the grave of his Linh’s wife, Thanh Kim Hue, another reformed theater legend, which is located nearby his burial spot, was trampled by the, breaking its flower pots. The crowd at the funeral of reformed theater artist Vu Linh on March 9, 2023. Photo by VnExpress/Thanh Tung During the four days of Vu Linh's funeral from March 6-9, many people standing on the sidewalk opposite his house pointed their cameras and phones directly at the funeral for live streaming and commentating. The chaotic atmosphere drowned out the chanting and recitations of Buddhist scriptures inside the house. The behavior affected the … [Read more...] about Mobs clamoring for attention disrupt celebrity funerals

Thai officials searching for a radioactive cylinder missing from a power station said Monday that they had found traces of the dangerous material in a nearby steel foundry. The 25-kilo (55-pound) steel tube containing highly radioactive caesium-137 was reported missing from the coal-fired power plant in Prachinburi province, east of Bangkok, earlier this month. Officials said traces of caesium had been found at a foundry around 10 kilometres (six miles) away, though they were not sure whether the cylinder was intact. "We are not sure if the cylinder has already melted, but we found caesium at this steel melting plant," said Prachinburi governor Ronnarong Nakornjinda. He said that if it had been melted, the radioactive material would have been contained within a "closed" area, and that there was no sign of contamination nearby. A search was launched after staff at the power station reported the loss of the steel tube, roughly 30 centimetres (12 inches) long and 13 centimetres … [Read more...] about Traces of missing Thai radioactive matter located in foundry

Illustrative image (Photo: Internet) Hanoi (VNA) – The Ministry of Health has asked the People's Committees of cities and provinces nationwide, the Pasteur Institute s and hygiene and epidemiology institutes to strengthen prevention and control of the Marburg virus disease . The Marburg virus causes an acute infectious disease, which naturally resides in fruit-eating bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus). The disease is transmitted from animals (bats, primates) to humans, or from person to person through direct contact with bodily fluids, or with environments/objects contaminated by the bodily fluids of a person infected or deceased from the Marburg virus. The incubation period of the disease ranges from 2 to 21 days. Patients initially show signs of high fever, headache, discomfort, followed by diarrhea, abdominal pain, muscle aches, nausea, vomiting, and bleeding. Currently, there is no specific vaccine or treatment for the disease. The ministry stressed that this is a … [Read more...] about Ministry urges prevention of Marburg virus from entering Vietnam

A visitor checks in at a digital transformation booth in Da Nang. The city has been speeding up digital transformation in making it a smart city in 2025. — VNS Photo Cong Thanh The central city of Da Nang and the telecommunications group Viettel has begun launching 5,000 cashless payment sites and 500 digital signature sites in Hai Chau District as part of the first stage of ‘smart city’ development in 2023. The group will provide digital accounts – My Signs, My Cloud – to 80 per cent of households living in the district and open an e-trade transaction for local residents boosting online public and business service. Businesses and households have been encouraged in using digital signing, invoices and public services through e-trade to save time and money. According to the city’s information and communication department, e-trade involves 1,000 businesses with 2,500 products. More than 260,000 digital accounts have been provided to residents in the city, and 83 per cent of … [Read more...] about Central city speeds up digital transformation

Son highly evaluated Rau's visit, describing it as an important milestone in promoting the development of good traditional friendship and multifaceted cooperation between Vietnam and Poland. At the meeting, the two sides held that room remains huge to further strengthen their bilateral cooperation as well as measures to boost collaboration in potential fields in the future. They also agreed to promote the exchange of delegations, closely coordinate and support each other at multilateral and international forums, including the United Nations, Asia-Europe Meeting and ASEAN - E.U. The two sides highly appreciated that Poland is currently Vietnam's biggest trading partner in Central Eastern Europe and that Vietnam is Poland's fourth largest trading partner in Asia. Despite being affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, economic and trade cooperation between the two countries has continued to maintain growth momentum in the past two years. Two-way trade turnover between the two countries … [Read more...] about Minister of Foreign Affairs holds talks with Polish counterpart